This tutorial was written by me on February 24, 2021. The results are of my own imagination.  Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.  

Please DO NOT claim this tutorial as your own.

This was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PS.

Please keep in mind that I write the tutorial as I am creating it.

Sometimes I may not explain properly where to place things so please see my example if you are ever in doubt :)

Supplies needed

I am using Adobe Photoshop 2021 but this tutorial should work with any version.

You can download the 7 day trial of PS here.

PTU Tube:  I am using Barbara Jensen's beautiful tube "In her Clutches" from her new package 123.  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. I am using the layered tube for this tutorial.  You can purchase Barbara Jensen's tube at Barbara's store here. 

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Midnight Garden" created by Pink Paradox Productions.  This kit is available for purchase at Barbara's store here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Kiya Designs awesome animation 149 from pack 48.  You can purchase her awesome animations at Barbara Jensen's store here.

Mask: 953 by Rachel Designs. Thank you for your awesome masks.  You can download it from her blog here. I am using the png version for this tutorial.  

Please see Rene's Animation How-to for PS here.  

Font of choice for your name. 

Plug in: None

Drop shadow of choice.

Please read all the Artist's/Designer's TOU.

To open an image, I click on the element or paper in the file folder and drag it into PS.

To transfer an element or paper in PS to my tag, I left click and drag it into my working canvas.  

The other way is to left click and drag the element from the folder right onto your tag. 

Either way you will get the same results :).  I will be using the both method for this tutorial.

For resizing and rotating I use the Ctrl+T command.

To mirror or Flip go to Edit, Transform, Flip Horizontal (mirror) or Flip vertical (Flip).

Remember to save your tag often in case PS crashes.  I always save my tags as a psd image.  It keeps all the layers and if you make tags for others you will always have the template.

Let's get started.

Open a new 800x800 transparent image.  We will resize later.

Go to layers, New fill layer, solid color.  When the pop up window appears type in FFFFFF and click ok.

Drag Rachel's mask into the tag.  Hold down the shift key and pull on the corners to make the mask larger.  Click the check mark and move to the upper left corner of the canvas.

Duplicate the mask and mirror it.  Hold down the shift key and pull on the corners to make is smaller.  Move to the bottom right of the canvas. 

Once happy with placement, hold down the Ctrl key and click on the bottom mask.  Right click on the mask layers and merge layers.  

Drag paper 30 into the mask.  Holding down the shift key, pull on the corners of the paper until it fits the canvas. Click the check mark.

Standing on the paper layer, right click the layer and create a clipping mask.

Drag element 80 into the tag. Resize 113% and move to the top left of the mask.

Drag element 172 into the tag. Click the checkmark and move to the top right of element 80.

Drag element 171 into the tag. Resize 20% and move to the top left of element 80.

Drag element 170 into the tag. Resize 50% and move to the center of element 80.

Drag element 88 into the tag. Click the checkmark and move to the lower left of mask.

Drag element 76 into the tag. Resize 55% and move to the bottom of the trees.

Drag element 89 into the tag. Resize W 38% x H 63% and move to the top left of the water.

Drag element 81 into the tag. Resize 38%, mirror and move to the bottom left of the gate.

Drag element 184 into the tag. Resize 33%, mirror and move to the bottom right of the gazebo opening.

Drag element 158 into the tag. Resize 28% and move to the bottom left of the gazebo opening.

Drag element 78 into the tag. Resize 25% and move to the bottom left of the gazebo.

Drag element 84 into the tag. Resize 40% and move to the top right of the water.

Drag element 6 into the tag. Resize 19% and move to the bottom of the headstone.

Drag element 145 into the tag. Resize 13% and move to the top center of the water.

Drag element 87 into the tag. Click the checkmark and move to the top of element 88.

Drag element 130 into the tag. Resize 41% and move to the top edge of the water.

Drag element 157 into the tag. Resize 18% and move to the bottom center of the green leaves.

Drag element 40 into the tag. Click the checkmark and move to the bottom left of the mushroom.

Drag element 119 into the tag. Resize 34% and move to the bottom center of the mushroom.

Select the layers you would like to use on your tube by clicking on the eyeball to make the layers visible.  

Click on the eyeball of a visible layer to hide it.  Holding down the Ctrl key, Select each visible layer. 

Once all layers are selected hit Ctrl+G on your keyboard to group the layer.  Select your move tool and select group 1.  

Drag this into your tag.  You can close the original and do not save the changes.  

Standing on group 1 in the layer pallet, right click and convert to smart object.  Your group layers are now one single layer.  

Hit Ctrl+T on the keyboard and click on the link between the H & W.  Resize 60% and move to the bottom right of the mask.  See mine for placement.

Drag element 79 into the tag. Resize 21% and move to the lower right of the tube.

Drag element 147 into the tag. Resize 40% and move to the lower right of the sign.

Drag element 135 into the tag. Resize 33% and move to the bottom of the blueberries.

Drag element 14 into the tag. Resize 23% and move to the bottom of the flowers.

Drag element 8 into the tag. Resize 25% and move to the bottom of the owl.

Drag element 120 into the tag. Resize 42% and move to the bottom left of the tube.

Drag element 74 into the tag. Resize 32% and move to the bottom right of the flowers.

Drag element 129 into the tag. Resize 35% and move to the bottom right of the door.

Drag element 26 into the tag. Resize 34% and move to the bottom right of the leaves.

Drag element 28 into the tag. Resize 34% and move to the bottom right of the door.

Drag element 39 into the tag. Resize 31% and move to the bottom right of the crystal ball.

Drag element 19 into the tag. Resize 43% and move to the bottom left of the tube.

Drag element 18 into the tag. Resize 60% and move to the bottom right of the mask.

Drag element 106 into the tag. Resize 23% and move to the bottom right of the wolf.

Drag element 109 into the tag. Resize 20% and move to the bottom of the flower.

Drag element 66 into the tag. Resize 36% and move to the bottom of the wolf.

Drag element 43 into the tag. Resize 17% and move to the bottom of the book.

Drag element 56 into the tag. Resize 7% and move to the bottom of the ink.

Add any other elements you like and make any adjustments to the layers.

Crop away any extra space.  

Image, Image Size and resize 650 on the longest side.  See my settings below.

Oh almost forgot we need to drop shadow all of our elements.

Select the element on the bottom of your tag in the layer pallet and double click it.

A layer style window will pop up.  Click on Drop shadow. and use the following settings.

Now right click on the layer you just applied the drop shadow.  Click copy layer style.

Now click on the layer above and hold down the shift key, click on the top layer.  Right click and paste layer style.    Drop shadow complete :)

Add your copyright and name.

Select the tube layer.  Right click and duplicate.  On the duplicate, right click and clear layer style.  Go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian blur set to 3 and click ok.  

If you do not want to animate.  Hide the white background layer Save your tag and export as png.

Might want to grab a coffee :)

Open Kiya Designs psd file in PS.  You will notice that there is 16 layers in this animation and it does not have the group layer.  

We need to group all the layers.  Starting from layer 22, hold down shift key and select layer 1.  Once all the layers are selected (the layers will be highlighted in blue) we need to group them.  

Go to Layers, Group layers or Ctrl+G on the keyboard.  You will see group 1 folder at the top. Make sure Group 1 is selected.

Select the layer you would like the animation to be placed.  I selected the paper layer over the mask layer.

Back to the animation.  Click on Group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Ctrl+T and resize 30% and mirror it.  Move to a spot you like best.  I moved it to the lower right of the mask.

Close the original animation and don't save changes.

Click on the little white arrow beside Group 1 to expand it.  Click on the eyeball of each layer to hide it but leave frame layer 1 visible.  Click on the arrow beside group one to hide it as we do not want to accidentally make any changes.

Next make sure your Timeline viewer is open on the bottom of PS.  I you do not see a row that has Timeline on the bottom, go to Windows, Timeline.

Next is animating.

Click on the little icon (four lines) at the right end of the animation screen then select make frames from layers.

You are going to see a big mess in the Timeline viewer but we are going to fix this.

Click on the first frame and click on the trash can in the animation window.  Repeat this until you reach the first frame of the animation.  

Now you should be at the first frame of the animation.  Click on frame 17 and hit the trash can.  Repeat for all the remaining frames.  You should be left with 16 frames in the animation window.  This is the amount of frames for our animation.

This next step is very important.  Any changes you do from here you must be on frame 1 in the Timeline window. It will be highlighted in blue.

Go to the bottom of your tag in the layers pallet.  Make sure you have animation frame 1 selected.

Click on the eyeball beside each layer to make it visible.  For the white base layer you may have to click on it a couple of times to make it visible in all the animation frames.  It's a Photoshop thing.  Do not touch the group layer.

Next, I want to slow down the animation.  With the first frame selected in the animation window, hold down the shift key and click on frame 16.  This will select all the frames.

Next, click on the little black arrow beside the 0 sec as we want to change the speed.  A pop up window will appear.  

I selected 0.2 Sec.  Now click on the play button to view the animation.  Click on it again to stop it.

Click frame 1 again so we don't accidentally make any changes.

Now to save our tag as a gif.

Go to File>Export>Save for Web(Legacy).

A new pop up window will appear.  Change the settings to my screen shot below.  Click on the image to enlarge it if needed.  Click save.  My screen shot will look different but the settings are the same for animating.

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.  I would love to see your results.